6 Jan 2011

HAITI / SCHOOLS

Local structural engineer Marie Ginette Mathurin works with UNICEF to build schools for children who represent more than 60 percent of the Haitian population. UNICEF

Posted at: January 6, 2011 5:35 pm

Duration: 02:55

Available in: SD

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STORY: HAITI / SCHOOLS
TRT: 2:55
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: FRENCH / NATS
 
DATELINE: NOVEMBER 2010, PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI
 
SHOTLIST:
 
1. Med shot, Marie Ginette Mathurin talking to workmen on building site
2. Close up, Mathurin looking at close up of plans
3. Med shot, Mathurin and construction worker
4. Close up, construction worker hammering a metal joint
5. Wide shot, construction worker and site
6. Med shot, construction worker giving directions
7. Wide shot, Mathurin on construction site
8. Wide shot, construction worker soldering a roof
9. Wide shot, Mathurin and headmistress of school talking on building site
10. Close up, car crushed by rubble during the earthquake
11. Wide shot, road and rubble from earthquake
12. Wide shot, man walking through a house destroyed by the earthquake
13. Wide shot, a house destroyed by the earthquake and the background of shanty towns
14. Close up, Mathurin on camera interview
15. Wide shot, boy on the street with man passing by
16. Close up, boy's face
17. Wide shot, shanty town
18. Med shot, shanty town
19. Med shot, girl walking through tented camp
20. Med shot, girl reading in tented camp
21. Close shot, Mathurin on camera interview
22. Med shot, two men on construction site with ladder
23. Mathurin on construction site with headmistress
24. Med shot, children on building site
25. Close up, Mathurin and headmistress on site
26. Close up, little girl drinking juice
27. Med shot, children playing
28. Close up, girl eating
29. Close shot, Mathurin on camera interview
30. Med shot, teacher in classroom with blackboard
31. Close up, two girls at their desk
32. Close up, teacher's hand on blackboard
33. Wide shot, kids in school
34. Close shot, Mathurin on camera interview
35. Wide shot, boys reading in the classroom
36. Close up, book
37. Close up, two girls at desk
38. Wide shot, teacher teaching in the classroom
39. SOUNDBITE (French) Sebastian Jean Baptiste, student at Vision Nouvelle School:
"I feel very happy in the room, and thank you UNICEF, we can study well, we can learn well, and so we'll have a better future."
40. Sebastian Jean Baptiste walking out of Vision Nouvelle School with his classmates
41. Close shot, Mathurin on camera interview
42. Med shot, construction workers working on a wall
43. Med shot, Mathurin and headmistress at school construction site
44. Wide shot, construction workers at construction site
45. Wide shot, Mathurin and headmistress at building site
46. Wide shot, camp in Port-au-Prince
47. Med shot, mother and two girls in their tent
48. Close up, two girls in their tent
49. Wide shot, tented camp Port-au-Prince
50. Wide shot, two girls walking out of the tented camp
51. Med shot, student writing in his notebook in class
52. Wide shot, students in a classroom, sitting at their desks

STORYLINE:

SOUNDBITE (French) Marie Ginette Mathurin, Structural Engineer, Haiti:
"My name is Marie Ginette Mathurin. I've worked for UNICEF since the 21 March 2010, since the earthquake in Haiti. I work for UNICEF as a structural engineer and help UNICEF to build the schools in Haiti."

"On January 12th, I saw desolation. I saw people buried by rubble. People were out on the streets carrying dead people, wounded people, people really suffering. Truly, I don't have the words to say what I saw."

"After the earthquake, I said to myself, Haiti has a need of her children, Haiti has need of help, and everyone in Haiti who can help needs to help. So, I decided to work for UNICEF that has a good programme of rapid intervention to open schools in Haiti."

"We need to help kids to get to school as quickly as possible, because if we don't give the children the opportunity to go to school, they are going to lose an entire year, and a whole generation is going to be marked by the event.  So we need to give the schools a helping hand quickly, and open the schools, so that people have the impression that life is starting again."

"We started to build semi-permanent schools in Haiti, and we hope to get 200 built. UNICEF has achieved three things with the schools. We have built anti-earthquake foundation, built anti-cyclone roofing, and we have created a roof that also combats heat. We have combined three very important elements. The children in their new schools seem very happy."

SOUNDBITE (French) Sebastian Jean Baptiste, Student, Vison Nouvelle School, Port-au-Prince:
"I feel very happy in the room, and thank you UNICEF, we can study well, we can learn well, and so we'll have a better future."

SOUNDBITE (French) Marie Ginette Mathurin, Structural Engineer, Haiti:
"The work that I am doing for UNICEF gives me satisfaction, but it is not totally complete, because we are in the middle of building 200 schools. I think that UNICEF wants to do more, and reach more people in Haiti, and if I am still with UNICEF I will help UNICEF do more for young people, who represent more than 60 percent of the Haitian population."